International Cyber Crime Takedown Said to Be Largest of Its Kind

A two-year undercover operation today netted two dozen arrests in eight countries in what federal authorities say is the largest coordinated international takedown in history directed at those who traffic stolen financial data through online forums. The investigation uncovered 411,000 compromised...

Two Members of LulzSec Plead Guilty to Cyber Crimes

Two members of the hacker group Lulz Security LulzSec pleaded guilty today to taking part in a cyber crime spree that launched attacks against Web sites belonging to law enforcement, corporations and media companies. Ryan Cleary, 20, of Wickford, Essex and Jake Davis, 19, of Lerwick, Shetland...

Hacker charged for hacking into U.S. Energy Department

Hacker charged for hacking into U.S. Energy Department Andrew James Miller, a 23-year-old resident of Devon, Pennsylvania, was arrested on Thursday and charged with one count of conspiracy, two counts of computer fraud, and one count of access device fraud, according to a statement issued by the...

Malware Magazine [THN] - eZine Issue 012

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Pennsylvania Man Indicted For Hack of Department of Energy Network

A Pennsylvania man was arrested yesterday after a Massachusetts grand jury issued a four-count indictment alleging that he hacked into computer networks belonging to the U.S. Department of Energy DoE and the University of Massachusetts and tried to sell access to a DoE supercomputer for $50,000 t...

MALWARE - June 2012 | The Hacker News Magazine Released

MALWARE - June 2012 | The Hacker News Magazine Released Welcome readers, techies working in the darkness of night and any other internet security minded folk. June finds us exploring the new "F" word: Malware. You will learn lots from our regular author, Perluigi Paganini as he takes you through...

LulzSec hacker - Brit Ryan Cleary charged for Sony and Fox hacks

LulzSec hacker - Brit Ryan Cleary charged for Sony and Fox hacks A 20-year-old Briton suspected of links to the hacking group Lulz Security is accused of cracking into websites for a Fox reality TV show, a venerable news show and other sites to deface them or steal personal information, federal...

Hacker Claims Access to Romney's Personal Hotmail Account

An unnamed tipster claims he has hacked a Web-based e-mail and online storage accounts belonging to GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney. The anonymous hacker reached out to Gawker yesterday afternoon and supplied them with what are purported to be pilfered login credentials. In an e-mail, the...

UGNazi hackers attack on CloudFlare via a flaw in Google

UGNazi hackers attack on CloudFlare via a flaw in Google After the FBI arrested Cosmo, the alleged leader of the UGNazi hacking group, the hackers attacked CloudFlare via a flaw in Google's two-factor authentication system. The CloudFlare hack allowed UGNazi to change the DNS for 4chan, so visito...

Student Suspected in University Hack That Leaked Info of 654K Cornhuskers

Officials at the University of Nebraska suspect a current undergraduate student is behind a hack earlier this month that appears to have spilled the sensitive information of tens of thousands of past and present students. According to a report from the Omaha World-Herald today, Police Chief Owen...

White House Lays Out Plans To Tackle Botnets

The White House revealed today a set of initiatives it plans to use as part of its public-private partnership to combat increasingly disruptive networks of infected computers known as botnets. In one of his last acts as White House Cybersecurity Coordinator, Howard Schmidt on Wednesday unveiled t...

FBI Warns Users of New 'Reveton' Scareware Scam

The FBI is warning consumers about a new scam that’s using a piece of malware called Citadel to redirect users to a scam site that installs scareware on their machines and demands a $100 payment to unlock them. The twist in this scam is that it uses the threat of prosecution by the Department of...

New Jersey mayor arrested for hacking recall website

New Jersey mayor arrested for hacking recall website The FBI last week arrested the mayor of the northern New Jersey town of West New York, together with his son, on charges of hacking into a website and a related email account that called for the mayor's recall. Felix Roque, 55, the mayor of Wes...

Serco: 'Sophisticated' Attack On U.S. Govt. Pension Plan Nets Info On 123k

Serco Inc., a well-known contractor working with the U.S. government, announced that it was the target of a sophisticated attack that exposed data on 123,000 civil employees of the Federal government and their families, including names, addresses and social security numbers taken from the company...

FBI Warns Top Firms Of Anonymous Protest Hacks on May 25

The FBI Cyber Division has sent a warning to some of the world’s top corporations about a coordinated campaign of denial of service attacks and hacking, scheduled for Friday, May 25. Apple Computer, McDonald’s, ExxonMobil, Hewlett-Packard, Bank of China and Walmart are among the firms singled out...

DNSChanger Lingers: 330k Systems Still Infected, 77,000 In The U.S.

The FBI said that there are still more than 330,000 computers believed to be infected with the DNSChanger malware, with just weeks to go before a court order to cut off their ability to communicate with the rest of the Internet. Fully 77,000 are located in the U.S., according to data provided to...

Google to Notify Users of DNSChanger Infections Ahead of July 9 Deadline

With a deadline for users to disinfect their computers or potentially lose Internet access thanks to the DNSchanger malware, Google is undertaking an effort to notify infected users through messages on search results pages. The federal government also is working to warn users about the infections...

Anonymous hater takes credit for Pirate Bay and Wikileaks Ddos Attack

Anonymous hater takes credit for Pirate Bay and Wikileaks Ddos Attack WikiLeaks and Swedish BitTorrent file-sharing site Pirate Bay were reportedly battling Distributed Denial-of-Service DDoS attacks for several days earlier this week. The user, who goes by the Twitter handle @AnonNyre, has been...

Cyber Attacks on gas pipeline linked to China

Cyber Attacks on gas pipeline linked to China The spear-phishing attacks laying siege to networks in the natural gas pipeline industry apparently are being carried out by the same group that hacked RSA security last year. The attacks, which have been occurring since late this past March, have...

Security Alert: Wi-Fi Hotels used to Spread Malware

Security Alert: Wi-Fi Hotels used to Spread Malware According to a report from the Internet Crime Complaint Center IC3 – a partnership between the FBI and the National White Collar Crime Center NW3C - Hackers are targeting foreigners' laptops using hotel Wi-Fi, the Internet Crime Complaint Centre...